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English Grammar and Usage Problems => Badly Written, Badly Spoken => Topic started by: Miss Mae on July 01, 2014, 01:19:14 PM

Title: Synonym of "humble"
Post by: Miss Mae on July 01, 2014, 01:19:14 PM

Is it appropriate to describe a donation as "humble"?

Others are making more humble, but equally important, donations to the UAE Suqia campaign, mostly by text messages.

Title: Re: Synonym of "humble"
Post by: Joe Carillo on July 02, 2014, 09:45:21 AM

Yes, it's appropriate to use the adjective "humble" in that sentence in the sense of "unpretentious" or "not costly or luxurious." That word is a very close synonym of the adjective "modest" when used in that same sense.

Title: Re: Synonym of "humble"
Post by: Miss Mae on July 02, 2014, 01:16:52 PM

Oh.

Thank you.